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Yael Katzir » Affiliated Faculty

YaelKatzir

Serling Visiting Israel Scholar

Biographical Info

Dr. Yael Katzir is an accomplished Israeli documentary filmmaker and former Head of the History Department and Lecturer in the Film Department of the Art School of Beit Berl Academic College. Her films include Company Jasmine, a movie about women in the Israeli Defense Forces; Praying In Her Own Voice, about the Women of the Wall in Jerusalem; Violins in Wartime, about life in Israel during the Lebanon War; and Shores of Light, about the displaced persons camps in Southern Italy. This fall, Professor Katzir will teach MC300: From Collective Identity to Personal Diversity: Israeli Documentary Film making, in James Madison College. This course is cross-listed with the English Department and the Film Studies Program.